Your Fourth of July Holiday News Update with Paul Adler Your Holiday forecast, Lightning blasts hole in duplex and high speed chase in Springfield.

Special report: Are you getting what you pay for at the pump? Roger Auffet is a state gasoline pump inspector. He finds pump errors in only about two percent of his tests. Web extra: read reports of gas pumps that failed state inspections in Greene County

Fireworks going off, illegally in many cases Police, firefighters look for people setting off blasts

Daycare license revoked Action comes after child allegedly escaped through fence

Police say man from Battlefield was on stolen 'cycle before fatal crash Investigators think Curt Russell was going more than 100mph before he hit a concrete culvert in western Springfield early Wednesday.

Current makes search difficult for man's body near Warsaw Bradley Burngs disappeared from a dock at Lake of the Ozarks.

NYT: McCain camp struggles to find strategy
John McCain has struggled to solidify lines of attack against Mr. Obama, Republican operatives say and some of his own advisers acknowledge.

Top military officer urges Iran diplomacy
It could turn out to be one of the significant comments of the 2008 campaign — and due to the July 4 weekend, it isn’t getting much notice. The nation’s highest ranking military officer warned Wednesday upon his return from a visit to Israel that a strike on Iran would be a very bad idea.

4 shot dead outside house party
Four people were shot dead early Friday outside a house party in Milwaukee, police said.

U.S. spent $250M on hostage hunt
The U.S. military says it flew thousands of spy flights over Colombian jungles trying to find and free three Pentagon contractors since their kidnapping in 2003.

Rosa Parks' belongings set to go under hammer
Thousands of personal items which belonged to Rosa Parks, the civil rights pioneer,  are set to be sold at auction.